Does anyone know the process by which one establishes a new political party?
Oh, lordy. Unless you want to work your ass off for the next several years like you never have in your life, give it up. The ballot access laws are designed to perpetuate a two-party system. Here’s a party that I’ll bet a dollar against a dime you’ve never heard of, and they’ve been at it for ten years.
That said, get a lawyer first to draw up your papers and an accountant second to manage your finances. Then get a bazillion volunteers to collect signatures. In New York, for example, you’ll need 50,000 signatures to put your candidate on the ballot for governor.
You’ll need to retain your attorney, as the laws regarding political parties are different from state to state. In some states, like Wyoming, each signatory must be unique; in other words, he must not have signed any other political party’s petition.
And you’ll need fund raising. Lots and lots of it. You’ll also need clerical people who can process the mounds of paperwork and reporting that you’ll have to do for mutliple layers of governments.
Enjoy.
You really don’t have to. Many already exist and I would bet that there is one that closely fits your own philosophy. The real problem, as Libertarian points out, is that the Republicans and Democrats have a lock on the election laws and refuse to change them, i.e., make them more democratic.
A fairly high percentage of the Republican vote would go to Libertairan, American Independent or small rightist parties and a similar percentage of the Democratic vote would go Green, New Party or other left parties under a more democratic electoral structure such as exists in Israel or Germany. There are many ways that this could be accomplished, but the Republicrats are united in their opposition.
Well, to be honest, I would be, too.
When you’re in, you don’t make it easy to be let out.